“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. ”
“[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. ”
“People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.”
“A wise person will be slow to show their anger...But very quick and diligent to show love and kindness to all.”
“The habit of misery had twisted these people, driving them to this paranoia. What had been diligence turned to desperation.”
“Jelly-bean" is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular- - I am idling, I have idled, I will idle”